Artful Arteta buoys Everton

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David Moyes, the Everton manager, compared Mikel Arteta with Thierry Henry after his performance in this win, but it would suffice if the Basque midfield player were to do a convincing impersonation of Tim Cahill for the next two months.

Cahill has scored five times in the league for Everton this season, but he has a knee injury. Arteta, who arrived on loan from Real Sociedad in January last year before joining for £2 million six months later, has five goals in 50 starts for the Merseyside club — hardly a ratio to recall the Arsenal forward’s, but Moyes was